Re: Questions About Setting Up Remote Access

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From: Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] (mwport_at_no_spam_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:30:33 -0500

Not quite sure I follow. If your ISP is hosting your email, they will
create the required MX, A and PTR records. All mail can then be forwarded
through them to your server (mail.companyname.org). To access RWW
externally, you can then type "https://mail.companyname.org/remote" in a web
browser. 

-- 
Merv  Porter  [SBS MVP]
===================================
"dsfseattle" <dsfseattle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A6B173CE-FC92-4838-A185-4249F431AE9C@microsoft.com...
> Merv, No I do not have dynamic IP.  I have a static ip.  Would I be
correct
> then that my IPS would need to register my site?  Dave
>
> "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Sounds like you have a dynamic IP address from your ISP.  One approach
may
> > be to establish a DDNS (Dynamic DNS) account at a provider like
Dyndns.org
> > or TZO.com and then use this (yourdyndnsname.dyndns.org) to create the
> > certificate to access RWW and OWA (using CEICW).
> >
> > -- 
> > Merv  Porter  [SBS MVP]
> > ===================================
> > "dsfseattle" <dsfseattle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:0AAE2C59-1770-4533-8498-47766DF03A64@microsoft.com...
> > > I am setting up SBS 2003 Premium edition so that they can access the
> > > companyweb, remote workplace, and OWA from the internet.
> > >
> > > For Exchange, I will be have their incoming email sent to pop3
accounts at
> > a
> > > web host for the time being.  Using the pop3 connector I will have the
> > emails
> > > brought down to the exchange server.  Outgoing email will go to my ISP
> > smtp
> > > server.
> > >
> > > One question I have is how do I register my server.  I still want my
email
> > > to go to fqdn.org.  But I want to direct traffic for companyweb,
remote
> > > workplace, and OWA to my server servername.fqdn.org.  Where do I
register
> > > this.  I thought that I registered this with my ISP.  They tell me no.
> > >
> > > ?
> >
> >
> >

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